Ideas are presented in this online course to provoke a conversation about the implications for
counselling ethics and practices of the current paradigm shift in consciousness. Emphasis is placed on
it being the ethical responsibility of all helping professionals to learn about the new developments
in the areas of science and to ponder the implications for the field of counselling. The need for a
new psycho-spiritual paradigm in the field of psychology is presented along with the need to address
these issues in our codes of ethics so that counsellors have some guidance in this pioneering territory.